I am not really ready for the upcoming exams. I am not very prepared for them and they are coming up quick. I have an exam in all my classes except study halls and extra classes like art and music. I think that either the history or English exam will be the hardest. I am not very good with memorizing things so the vocabulary on the English exam is going to be hard in that way. Also i am not very good at writing papers and essays. This is the other section of the English exam so that is also going to be difficult. The history exam will be hard because you have to know a lot of things and remember dates and things that happened and i am not good at that so that is going to hurt me as well.

To Do:
1) make study guides for all the exams
2) find old quizzes and tests that cover what is going to be on the exams
3) make tests or quizzes that cover the material on the exam
4) make a "cheat sheet" for the English exam
5) study for the exams



When i was about 8 or 9 years old, i started having horrible pains in my stomach. For about a week know one knew what these pains were. Then one day, i was sitting on my couch moaning and my mom walked in to check where the pain was and i said right below my belly button and she sprung into action! About 10 minutes later me and her were in the car riding to the emergency room because she knew that something was wrong. When we got there the people took me and put me in an x-ray machine where my best friends dad found what was wrong. I had a appendicitis and my large intestine had almost devoured my smaller one. Once the doctors found out about this, they found the closest room and set up for me to have surgery ASAP. About 2 hours after i had arrived at the hospital, i was laying on an operation table in a freezing cold room being put to sleep so that i could be operated on.
When i woke up about 6 or 7 hours later, i had the worst pain i have ever felt in my stomach. I was unable to talk and was just pushed around on a long stretcher. The doctors and my parents wheeled me to my room where i stayed for about 5 days. I slept about 10 minutes that night because the nurses were frequently coming in and taking my blood and checking up on me. I don't know how i did sleep because the pain in my stomach was so bad. On the second day, i was not able to even walk or move because of the pain. I stayed on my back this whole time because if i rolled over then the IVs could come out of me and it was horrible getting them back in. On about the third day, i was able to walk down the hallway with a walker. It was VERY painful though. Finally when i got out of the hospital, i stayed out of school for about another week. The pain still stayed for that week but getting back to school and seeing my friends made it go away because that 2 weeks of my life was SO lonely.

I don't have a real role model. Right now in this time period there are not many good role models to choose from! I just don't like the feeling of having to live like someone else and look up to them. I like to be able to be free and loose because it makes me feel like i can go where ever i want with my life! Having a role model would make me have to live like someone else and i don't want that. It makes me feel constricted and regulated to look up to someone because in my definition a role model is someone who looks up to someone and follows behind in there life.

A role model is very hard to explain. It is someone who has made smart decisions or gone good with there life and people look up to that. Some role models could be celebrity's, models, or even a parents. A role model doesn't have to be someone with a lot of money or fame but someone who that has made a smart decisions. Something that makes someone a non-role model is if they have made bad decisions in there life. Some celebrity non-role models are people like Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Nichole Ritchie. Those celebritys are not good role models because in their life, they have made a lot of wrong decisions and are not responsible for anything besides keeping themselves alive. They only worry about themselves and did not make good decisions as a child so they could grow up smart and have a good life.

This year has been full of drama and confusion. People have started to change and have become really really really sensitive. Most of the classes have been really hard to understand! People have DRAGGED me into the drama and i am worn out from it. Also, there has been A LOT more projects this year and the teachers aren't giving us any slack on homework while we have the projects. This is very frustrating!!! Not many things have been god this year beside friends being fun. There was nothing fun about school and i will be relieved to be done with this year because it has been a pain.


I have meet one person but i havent gotten to know her so that was not that exciting. I didnt really enjoy any one class unless someone was being funny that day. There hasnt been anything very interesting or cool i have learned this year. I never even thought of myself as a senior of middle school so i dont know. I havent learned much about myself besides A.D.D kicks in to much. The teachers and classes have been the toughest this year. This year the classes were a lot harder and way more confusing this year. The drama sucked this year and there was WAY to much of it. I am ready to get in High School because we are going to be more free and loose. The only thing i am NOT looking foward to is some teachers.

Today, in 2003 she US made a new version on the $20 bill. This is important in history because this is the new kind of money that the USA will be using for a while and it is important to know when new things like this comes out. This new version still had Andrew Jackson on the front of it but it did not have the old circle around it. This interest me because i like to know the new kind of money and designs for money because i like to see how they are going to improve the money and made it less counterfitable.

On my birthday, September 18, hurricane Isabel came through North Carolina. This hurricane came through in 2003 though. This effected me a lot because this hurricane came right over where i live and ruined my birthday. Also the great rock musician Jimmy Hendrix died of drug overdose at age 27 in 1970. Some people that have the same birthday as me are the rapper Xzibit, the basketball coach Rick Pitino, and a guy off the sopranos. These things are interesting to me because i did not know these things happened on my birthday and it is interesting.

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This article is about how humans have evolved so well. It says that animals have evolved some and that some are good learners but it says it could be bad for the animals if they were to smart. It says that even some micro-organisms are smart and they can learn somewhat. This article is also saying that you can evolve without the nervous system but it is difficult. Some scienctist actually take flies and make them so that they can learn better and easier. This takes up to 15 generations to do though because it is such a difficult process. The doctors say though that the flies live a 15% shorter life than the regular ones.

I dont really like the article that much. It was very confusing and i didnt understand much of it. I thought that it was about how animals arent as smart as humans and explaining why. This does not make me feel any smarter because i have known that animals are dumb my whole life. In school, i preform ok and it does not make me feel any better until i would be able to compare myself in school with them.

"Listen up! Information seems to stick in your brain best when you hear it, so it sounds like you're an auditory learner. A technique to try in class is to listen more and write less, or if your teacher will allow it, record the lessons. Then, when you sit down to study, you can either read your notes out loud or listen to the tapes to make sure you've got things down pat. "

I am not surprised by this result. A lot of people have told me that I am a learner that learns better listening and seeing stuff because then i can take the time to visualize what they are saying and it gives me a picture in my head. Usually in school, i do better being able to listen to something or to have something that is hands on. Like last year in Dr. K's class there was a lot of hands on stuff and i excelled because of that. If i were to be able to watch a movie or see someone act out a scene then i would be able to understand what has happened there. In high school, i think being able to actually see stuff and experience what i am trying to learn about would help. Things like field trips help me a lot if we are able to go and see where that thing happened or be able to see a reenactment of something.

This article was telling about how there is going to be a Dicken's Theme Park. They say that they are hoping to bring in over 400,000 tourist a year. In the park, there is going to be a Magwitch inspired boat ride that takes you around and tries to recreate the boat ride. This theme park is going to be in Kent. They say that this park is going to be awesome and decked out to the most realistic things possible. I think that this theme park is a good idea because it might help people to understand Dickens more and understand what he was trying to say in his books. I also like the idea of that boat ride because it will put this scene in a different perspective for some people.

I think that this theme park would be interesting. I like the kind of parks that are more thrilling. This theme park is one that shows you stuff. I would like to go on that boat ride thing because i want to see how that is. Some of the other attractions are interesting. I think that this park would be a good way to get a better feel for the book and the movie.

In the article about surnames, it is saying that there has been a huge increase in hispanics coming into America and that there names have been moving from the 20s and 30s to the top 10. This hasn't suprised the demographers. Demographers are the man and women who do these searches and polls. It is also saying that there is a increase in postion for the name lee because that is a very common name in Asia and China and they have also been migrating over to the United States. I am not very suprised about this poll and how the hispanic and Asian names have increase over the past few years due to imigration. I don't think that this is a bad thing but i don't like how imigrants names are being put at the top of the list. This is saying to me that there are to many imigrants coming into the US and that we need to do something about it.

When i researched my last name in the data base i did get it in there. Britt, my last name, was ranked at 1,059, which is a lot lower than i thought it would have been at. Since 1990, Britt has gone down 181 places. I had know clue about any of these things for my name. I was very suprised to find that my last name was so low in the standings because i have heard my last name a lot. I am not that suprised that it has gone down a lot because there have been a lot more different names to come to the united states.

My family is from a lot of different countries but i don't know them. My mom's maiden name is Sharon. I do know that i have a relative that is 110 going on 111. I don't know a lot of history about my family, and i do think that i did have a great grandfather that fought in the World War II. There isn't really much to say about my family. We had some people that fought in wars and some really old relatives but that is it......

• Chuck Brake
• Age 35
• retired US marines soider and is not working any more because he had his leg blown off by a grenade
• white
• average, what 6' 5" but lost a couple of inches because of his leg
• he lives in the rural aprt of North Carolina
• he had a big dog but had to ive it away when he went to war
• his wife had to go to Europe for buisness reasons
• he likes to collect old war guns, medels, helmets, ....
• he is not very faun on how his life played out because now he is in the rural part nof north carolina and his wife is half way around the world and he has no leg
• he likes shooting guns, hates people that mistreat other people
• he is the only one that knows that he really didn't get his leg blown off by a grenade, he cut it off his leg to get out of war
• he hates ships